READ THIS - Outlook 2003 Junk Mail is JUNK!

[MSC]

I recently contacted Microsoft since I get some junk mail that has no sender, no recipient, no subject, and no content in the e-mail; in other words it's just blank! Once you've looked carefully at the Rules options, you'll find that you cannot set up a rule when there's no data so that's out. You would need at least a sender, a subject, or content in the e-mail, without any of that Microsoft has no rule to handle this

After numerous e-mails with their support system (a waste of time), the solution-----contact that persons ISP and report it! Can you believe that!? The proposed solution, or should I really call it a non-solution, is just another perfect example of Microsoft not listening to its customers. Now I need to go out and buy yet another piece of software that blocks Junk Mail that treats mail with no content in the "To:" or "Subject:" fields as junk; and most of them do just that

In simple words, Microsoft Outlook 2003 cannot perform the simplest Junk mail rule which is to say that a message that comes from no one and has no content is not deemed junk. How retarded is that

We customers pay good money for software that should perform a simplest of operations and now they would like us to just forget about that and start reporting junk mail to ISP's; like I don't aleady have a job

~M~

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Interesting rant - too bad it is baseless. How is a filter supposed to work
when there is no keyword or content to filter??

I understand that there is commercial software that is built to do this,
however Outlook was not designed to filter non-events. Perhaps in the
future, an update to their Junk Filters will add this ability but for now,
it does not work.

I have to wonder how much mail you get that has: No sender, no subject, no
message body, etc.? I get a couple a month and my ISP filters them.
Perhaps you need to get a better ISP, such as one that uses Brightmail to
filter mail at the server?


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the SWEN virus, all mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, MSC asked:

| I recently contacted Microsoft since I get some junk mail that has no
| sender, no recipient, no subject, and no content in the e-mail; in
| other words it's just blank! Once you've looked carefully at the
| Rules options, you'll find that you cannot set up a rule when there's
| no data so that's out. You would need at least a sender, a subject,
| or content in the e-mail, without any of that Microsoft has no rule
| to handle this.
|
| After numerous e-mails with their support system (a waste of time),
| the solution-----contact that persons ISP and report it! Can you
| believe that!? The proposed solution, or should I really call it a
| non-solution, is just another perfect example of Microsoft not
| listening to its customers. Now I need to go out and buy yet another
| piece of software that blocks Junk Mail that treats mail with no
| content in the "To:" or "Subject:" fields as junk; and most of them
| do just that.
|
| In simple words, Microsoft Outlook 2003 cannot perform the simplest
| Junk mail rule which is to say that a message that comes from no one
| and has no content is not deemed junk. How retarded is that!
|
| We customers pay good money for software that should perform a
| simplest of operations and now they would like us to just forget
| about that and start reporting junk mail to ISP's; like I don't
| aleady have a job.
|
| ~M~

 

[anonymous]

I agree.......
I just bought a new Ford truck and now I need to go out
and buy gasoline to run it.
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[Anonymous]

Should have gone electric or Hybird.. Woldn't have to by as much.

 

[Rob Schneider]

See http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/authenticate_mail.asp.
Almost surely the mail you are getting are from bad-guy spammers
attempting to dupe you into install virus-infested software.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms